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Buffalo Nichols comes home, plays the blues to chatty Vivarium crowd

Cal Roach
March 3, 2024
Most articles you'll find about Carl Nichols these days wrangle with definitions of the blues. Musicians and songwriters of this genre provided a framework that gave rise to most of modern popular music, yet an...

Listen to us talk new Milwaukee music with WUWM’s Lake Effect (September 2023)

Milwaukee Record Staff
September 28, 2023
Once a month, Milwaukee Record's own Matt Wild gets his NPR on by sitting down with WUWM's Lake Effect and discussing some of his favorite new Milwaukee records and songs. Listen to the latest installment HERE...

Buffalo Nichols updates the blues (and returns to Milwaukee) on ‘The Fatalist’

Matt Wild
September 15, 2023
"Drum machines are a 50-year-old technology. If the blues hadn't been hijacked and trapped in amber, I think they naturally would've been incorporated." That's Milwaukee musician Carl Nichols—a.k.a. Buffalo ...

Buffalo Nichols returns with something new/old, “You’re Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond”

Matt Wild
June 15, 2023
When we last caught up with Buffalo Nichols—a.k.a. Milwaukee musician Carl Nichols—he was playing at the Bruce Street Anodyne for WMSE's Local/Live. This was roughly a year after playing to a slightly bigger au...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Buffalo Nichols (Live from Anodyne)

Milwaukee Record Staff
February 8, 2023
WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE. Beginning in 2023, we're also collecting episodes on a handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeereco...

Buffalo Nichols to perform on ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ on March 29

Tyler Maas
March 28, 2022
Less than a week after SistaStrings made their late night television debut while performing alongside Allison Russell on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, another artist with strong Milwaukee ties will perform on a different...

Buffalo Nichols: hometown hero gives a performance to remember

Jabril Yousef
August 2, 2021
Last Wednesday, by complete chance, I connected with Buffalo Nichols on Instagram after seeing a clip of him playing at Evanston Space, a venue in Evanston, Illinois, where I attended college. At the time, I...
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